Palantir

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - United States

October 27, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Hackerrank -> DSA Coding round -> Virtual Superday (Decomp + Learning) -> Hiring Manager (could be anything, usually worst of prev 3 interviews). Overall process moved fast, and interviewers are engaged.

Questions

Class design with linked lists

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Palantir's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive38%

Neutral47%

Negative15%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Palantir's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in United States.

Palantir Interview Questions

Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array I

Medium

Given a string and two substrings, find the indices where the first substring occurs. Then, find the indices where the second substring occurs. Return the indices of the first substring that are close to any index of the second substring, within a specified range.

ArraysTwo PointersStrings

Smallest String With Swaps

Medium

You're given a string and a list of index pairs. You can swap characters at these indices any number of times. Find the lexicographically smallest string you can obtain after performing these swaps.

ArraysStringsGraphs

Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array II

Hard

You're given a string and two patterns. Find all 'beautiful' indices where an occurrence of the first pattern is within 'k' distance of an occurrence of the second pattern.

ArraysTwo PointersSliding Windows